A Middle Way: The Eightfold Path

Most spiritual journeys provide a path – a road map of sorts to help seekers find their way. Yoga has an eight limbed approach, called Ashtanga. Christian faiths offer a path to salvation. The eightfold path of Buddhism charts a middle way of being, between extreme austerity and sensual indulgence, that leads to liberation from suffering. The middle way also indicates a place between eternalism and nihilism – a departure from the artificial separation of dualism.

The Buddhist eightfold path can provide a scaffolding within which we can more confidently experiment, both in formal practice and in daily life, with new ways of being in the world and relating to ourselves, others, and experience. In this way we can directly observe for ourselves the benefits of the practices. Click the links below to learn more about each step on the path (a work in progress):